Sanskrit and 'orientalism'
Subtitle: Indology and comparative linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958
By: edited by Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K.J. Park, Damodar SarDesai.
Contributors: McGetchin, Douglas T.; Park, Peter K. J.; SarDesai, D. R.
Publisher: Manohar
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Indologies : German and other / Robert P. Goldman; title: German Indology avant la lettre : the experiences of the Halle missionaries in southern India, 1750-1810 / Hanco Jürgens; title: A Catholic apologist in a pantheistic world : new approaches to Friedrich Schlegel / Peter K.J. Park; title: The nationalist aspect of Friedrich Schlegel's On the language and the wisdom of the Indians / Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi; title: Comments on chapters two to four / Todd Kontje; title: Shishyas of another order : students of Indology at Bonn and Berlin / Indra Sengupta; title: Innovation amid controversy : Indology at Leipzig, 1841-1958 / Frank Neubert; title: Into the Centre of Sanskrit Study : ancient Indian studies and German culture in Berlin and Leipzig in the nineteenth century / Douglas T. McGetchin; title: Comments on chapters six to eight / Hartmut Scharfe; title: Special comments / Wilhelm Halbfass; title: Canonizing an Indian text? / A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, Hegel, and the Bhagavadgītā Saverio Marchignoli; title: State, university, and Indology : the politics of the Chair of Indology at German universities in the nineteenth century / Indra Sengupta; title: Wayward disciples : Indology and Buddhism in fin-de-siècle Germany / Douglas T. McGetchin; title: From language to man? : German Indology and ethnology in the epistemological battlefield of the nineteenth century / Pascale Rabault; title: Everything is India : Hanns Heinz Ewers, Indology, and women / Jared Poley.